Citizens will vote in a referendum on Sunday to decide if enterprises should operate with a more egalitarian mindset

Fifty years after 5,000 miles of Britain’s rail network were axed as part of the Beeching cuts, we ask: how has the country moved on?

Hopes of a stable coalition emerging after today's vote have been upset by emergence of the comic turned would-be leader

Survivors of epidemic, which has killed 8,000 people, condemn ‘immoral’ decision to claim immunity

When the United States and European countries began trading with Japan in the late 1850s, they forced the Japanese authorities to grant their nationals immunity from prosecution in the Japanese courts.

Honest, inexperienced politicians may not be the answer for a nation on the edge of economic disaster. Plus, the rise of Japan's concrete jungle

The raid, which it is thought to have involved up to eight men, took place on the tarmac at Brussels international airport

The Ghanaian could become the first black pope – but his ideology is all too familiar

The decision was taken with meticulous care, but there is no reason to believe it was not taken alone, or at most with the knowledge of a tiny handful.

Don't forget your glasses at the British Museum's new exhibition: most of the pieces in Ice Age Art would fit on a reindeer rib. Whatever this work was for, it was not intended to be displayed in a museum.